Word: custodio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resulted largely from his testimony to the Agrava board last April. According to the Tanodbayan report, that testimony was found "to be of doubtful veracity or at times . . . false." In addition to those named as accessories, 17 soldiers, including Aquino's military escorts and Brigadier General Luther Custodio, who was responsible for security at Manila airport, were charged as principals in the conspiracy and ordered held without bail. Herminio Gosuico, a Manila businessman, was named as an accomplice. Said Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, 45, younger brother of the slain opposition leader: "What is lacking is the mastermind...
...report, Agrava implicated seven military men, including Brigadier General Luther Custodio, who was in charge of the 1,199-member security force deployed to protect Aquino at the airport. In the 457-page majority report, supported by a 481-page memorandum prepared by the board's legal panel and leaked to the press two weeks earlier, the other four board members went much further than Agrava. By naming Ver, they in effect struck at the very heart of the Marcos regime. The majority report named, in addition to the seven suspects mentioned by Agrava, 18 other military men, among...
...morning of Aug. 21, we realized that we could no longer discourage him from coming." Thereupon a decision was made to arrest Aquino on the basis of a 1977 death sentence for murder and subversion. To facilitate that move, Ver said, he turned over documents to General Luther Custodio, commander of Aviation Security Command (AVSECOM), that "affirmed" Aquino's death sentence...
...then told the commission he was at his office on the grounds of the presidential palace, six miles from the airport, when Custodio informed him that Aquino had been killed by an unknown assailant. Ver said he quickly broke the news to Marcos. "The President was shocked," he reported. "He expressed a feeling of disbelief for this tragic incident." Under questioning, Ver denied he had informed Marcos that the killer was a Communist. Yet Marcos made just that assertion the next day in a television address...
...military junta in Buenos Aires used in its "dirty war" against leftist terrorists in the 1970s. According to human rights activists, 34 people have been murdered and an additional five have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. In April, paramilitary squads gunned down three trade-union leaders. Says Ramón Custodio López, a doctor who helped found the Honduran Commission for the Defense of Human Rights: "The repression is systematic. It is directed against anyone suspected of being a sympathizer or supporter of the revolution in El Salvador or in Nicaragua...